ABOUT THE BOOK
From pre-historic stages women have been tortured, raped, sold even to embrace death by committing suicide or accepting 'Sati' culture and were affected with other social and domestic violences. They were always considered as weakers than masculine world of muscles. Although in India; in the ages of the Vedas, women were equally participants in the rituals and also as composers of various hymns but gradually their stayals and activities were confined in domestic world. However, many of them came forward alone or with their counterparts to work for the development, to bring light in the darkness of the society. At the advent of Vaishnavism led by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu women, despite performing all their domestic duties were involved in spreading Vaishnavism and glorified it. The book, originally written in Bengali by Dr. Uma Bandopadhyay were in two parts elaborating the lives of Vaishnavite women. The present writer whose' Sri Chaitanyadev and Gadadhar fetched fame has chosen ranging from 3005 BC.(or 8th century AD) to 19th century. Vaishnava devotees translated in abridged and edited form of 108 lives of women in English. It is sure that thousands of women devotees still remain whom to be remembered.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Radhakrishna Goswami (Radhu Goswami) (B-1946) B. Com. M.A. (in Bengali) From Calcutta University is a known of short story writer in Bengali literature, finds his ease in
researching on mythological and historic characters.
He wrote many articles on various topics of Bengali and Indian Literature including on Raja Rammohan Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo and specially on Lord Sri
Chaitanyadev, Sri Gadadhar Pundit, Sri Nityanandaprabhu, Sri Adwaitaprabhu, Yaban Haridas and others, the followers of Sri Chaitanyadev for during the last more than
four decades in different periodicals and self authored Books. In his book Mahasarathi Sri Goswami, analyzed the role and sentiments of Sri Krishna, in his Droupadi Ananya, he scanned the socio-literary value of Droupadi. His poignant reasoning explored newer dimensions in character analysis of the Mahabharta. He was honoured with Sahityasri and Bharat Bhushan titles in 1989 and 2002 respectively by ABBSS (Bhopal), Srila Vrindavandas and the best writer in Scriptures from Kolkata for restless researches on Sri Gouranga i.e., Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
The author is the fourth son of Sadhak Mukundalal Goswami. He probably was one of the 11th descendants of Ballav Chaitanya Goswami, one of the important associates of Lord Sri Chaitanyadev and His disciple of Pundit Sri Gadadhara. This author's mother Asha Rani was also only daughter among three sons of Gour Kishore Goswami who was one of the eleventh descendants of Sri Nityananada Prabhu. The author's the eldest maternal uncle Prankishore Goswami was a leading scholar, writer, eminent Srimad Bhagawata nattrator in India. So, the influence of Sri Nityanandaprabhu and of Sri Pundit Gadadhara in the blood of the author cannot be ignored.
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